Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frances Mayes

I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

Fran Lebowitz

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

Fran Lebowitz

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

Fran Lebowitz

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

George W. S. Trow

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

George Santayana

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

George Santayana

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

George Santayana

One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

George Santayana

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

George Santayana

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

George P. Shultz

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

George P. Shultz

Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. When you do have ideas, you have more consistency. And when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).

George Noory

Regardless of what Einstein had come up with, it is very possible that a few hundred years into the future some scientist comes up with something that they have spotted in the universe that we have no idea exists today.

G. Gordon Liddy

You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

John Poindexter

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

John Polkinghorne

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

Norah O'Donnell

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Norbert Wiener

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent

Norbert Wiener

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Nobuo Uematsu

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

Robert Hass

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

Robert Henri

Count on big lines to express your ideas.

Robert Henri

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Robert Henri

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

Robert Henri

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.

Rick Ross

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

Rick Perry

Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.